evolves there's no representation here oh, there's no representation so all the adults are engine i you know disconnected so there's more connection the adults and parents are really friendly but i think in our modern culture i you know everyone's is used to be on their phones and people are eager to engagement and talk they don't have their social media so here they are at camp mather how are i doing. >> how are you doing it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches

and rug i do lay out people want to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment they're not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get creative with the latin-american and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is seen in a different light we're approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the yosemite park built jackson diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve

the food. >> i'm the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash brown's our meal formulate is we have roost lion it's reflecting of the audience we have people love our meals and love the idea they can pick up a meal and do worry about doing the dishes can have a great time at camp mather

after camp people indulge themselves everyone racks go in a place that's crisis that i air after the crackinging of a campfire a campfire. >> the evening is kept up with a tenant show a longed tradition it features music i tried this trick and - this talent show is famous for traditional things but we have new things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

the first 7, 8, 9 being on stage and being embarrassed and doing random things >> unlike my anothers twinkling stars are an unforcible memory ♪ ♪ ♪ admission to camp mather is through a lottery it includes meals and camp programs remember all applicant registration on line into a lottery and have a rec and park department family account to register registration typically begins the first week of january and ends the first week in february this hey sierra oasis is a great place to enjoy lifeiest outside

of the hustle and bustle and kickback and enjoy and a half >> everything is so huge and beautiful. >> the children grew up her playing around and riding their bites e bicycles it's a great place to let the children see what's outside of the city common experience is a this unique camp when you get lost in the high sierra wilderness camp mather is waiting and we look forward to city manager's office you here soon

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street.

it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪] [♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of

chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle.

and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help

preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that

is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing the old. [♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts,

culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪] >> i have been living in san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42

years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it's been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we've got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted the place, they cemented my back yard, so i won't be worried about landscaping too much. we have central heating, and i like the new countertops they put in. up to date -- oh, and we have venetian blinds. we never had venetian blinds before, and it's just cozy for

me. it meant a lot to me because i didn't drive, and i wanted to be in the area where i can do my shopping, go to work, take the kids to school. i like the way they introduced the move-in. i went to quite a bit of the meetings. they showed us blueprints of the materials that they were going to use in here, and they gave us the opportunity to choose where we would like to stay while they was renovating. it means a lot. it's just that i've been here so long. most people that enjoyed their life would love to always retain that life and keep that lifestyle, so it was a peaceful neighborhood. the park was always peaceful,

and -- i don't know. i just loved it. i wanted to be here, and i stayed. you. >> well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if you're a renter you can get earthquake shushes we'll take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode i'm the chief resilience officer for san francisco i'm joined by

my good friends for the earthquake authority we're at the el cap center for the city and county of san francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city you'll see one of the demonstrates we've built the model home and i encourage other episodes we'll be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as property owners to employ you work for the california earthquake authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if you're a renter or property owner how the insurance issues. >> i'm the chief mitigation officer or c e a a property line funded pubically managed entity that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile

owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. >> what make the c e a deft. >> we work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy you're not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. >> am i covered with homeowners insurance. >> no california homeowners understand their homeowners insurance doesn't cover earthquake they need a separate policy if you're an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. >> so explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. >> irreverent so in the 80s the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over

earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. >> we're talking about the homeownership's buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters what's my opposite. >> the option for renter the earthquake be insurance company is affordable i think people don't realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as emergency repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit that's whether earthquake is important. >> you're title you're the excessive mitigation officer for

the state of california when i think of insurance i don't think about mitigation. >> so as part of public safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had $45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for california homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. >> whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. >> earthquake authority.com not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if

a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their premium as an incentive for the work. >> what does mitigate the home mean. >> strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. >> thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the earthquake authority but we'll talk about

>> third thursdays at the commons is a monthly event series to really activate krisk centkrisk -- civic center, fulton mall, and other locations through social operation. >> in 2016, an initiative called the civic center progress initiative was launched, it was launched by a bunch of city agencies and community partners, so they really had to figure out how to program these places on a more frequent basis. i'm with the civic center community benefit district, and i'm program manager for the civic center commons. also, third thursdays will have music. that was really

important in the planning of these events. >> we wanted to have an artist that appeals to a wide range of tastes. >> i'm the venue manager. good music, good music systems, and real bands with guitar players and drummers. >> we turned uc center and fulton street into a place where people want to be to meet, to laugh, and it's just an amazing place to be. there's a number of different exhibits. there's food, wine, cocktails, and the idea, again, is to give people an opportunity to enjoy what really is, you know, one of the great civic faces in america. when you look from the polk street steps, and you look all

the way down the plaza, down market street, daniel burns' design, this was meant to be this way. it's really special. >> the city approached us off the grid to provide food and beverages at the event as kind of the core anchor to encourage people who leave a reason to stay. >> it's really vibrant. it's really great, just people walking around having a good time. >> this formula is great food, interesting music, and then, we wanted to have something a little more, so we partnered with noise pop, and they brought in some really fun games. we have skeeball, we also have roller skating lessons, and we've got a roller skating rink. >> if you're a passion jail

skeeball player like me, and you're deciding whether you're just going to roll the ball up the middle or take a bank shot. >> our goal is to come out and have fun with their neighbors, but our goal is to really see in the comments that it's a place where people want to hold their own public event. >> i think this is a perfect example of all these people working together. everybody's kind of come together to provide this support and services that they can to activate this area. >> there's no one agency or organization that really can make this space come alive on its own, and it's really through the collective will, not just of the public sector, but both the public and our business partnerships, our nonprofits partnerships, you

know, neighborhood activists. >> i really like it. it's, like, a great way to get people to find out about local things, cuisine, like, it's really great. >> it's a really good environment, really welcoming. like, we're having a great time. >> we want to inspire other people to do this, just using a part of the plaza, and it's also a good way to introduce people if they're having a large scale event or small scale event, we'll direct you to the right people at the commons so you can get your event planned. >> being a san francisco based company, it was really important to connect and engage with san franciscans. >> how great is it to come out from city hall and enjoy great music, and be able to enjoy a

comtail, maybe throw a bocci ball or skee ball. i find third thursdays to be really reinrig rat reinriggating for me. >> whether you're in the city hall or financial district or anywhere, just come on down on third thursdays and enjoy the music, enjoy an adult beverage, enjoy the skee ball; enjoy an adult playground, if you

i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do

this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the street, every time, our friends. >> i think everybody should give back. we are very fortunate. we are successful with the company and it's time to give back. it's a great place for us. the weather is

nice. no rain. beautiful san francisco. >> it's a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. for more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. get in touch with the parks and recreation center so come

welcome to the wednesday, june 20th meet offing the government audit and oversight committee. i'm jane kim, the chair of the committee. joined by supervisor peskin and the president of the board of supervisors will be here shortly. london breed. i want to thank the staff at sfgovtv who ensure that our meetings are made available to the public, both online and via transcript as well. any announcements? >> yes.

please ensure you silence your cell phones, completed speaker cards and copies of documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will be in the june 20. can you call item 1 through 6 together. >> six resolutions authorizing the director of the mayor's office to have housing and community development to execute local operating subsidy program grant agreements. these for services at zygmunt arendt house located at 850 broderick street, in an amount not to 11,787,548. and 871 turk street. 455 fell street.

railton place, 242 turk street not to exceed 5,561,543. and monterey boulevard apartments, in amount not to exceed 1,662,342. >> i want to welcome ann romero to present on these six items. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is ann romero, i'm a senior project manager at the mayor's housing project. first i'll give a brief background on the program and describe the agreements. so as you may know, the local operating subsidy program was created in response to the ambitious goal of the 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness

to create 3,000 new units. and while the city could target capital dollars, the lack of federal or state subsidies would keep us from creating at this scale. so it's structured to pay the difference between operating the housing and rental revenue. the department provides tenant referrals from their coordinated entry system. the proposed six agreements before you today, include one new contract for a new affordable family development currently under construction. 455 fell street. two renewal contracts at the end of the initial loss term which are zygmunt arendt house and 10th and mission for seniors and families. and three new contracts to replace the loss of a subsidy at parkview terraces, for seniors, railton place and monterey for

homeless families. approval would bring the agreements to 32 and the totaled supported to 1616. annual subsidies range from 8,000 to $12,000 per unit per year. in 2018, the projected loss funding is $9.4 million. authorization of these six contracts would provide $43.4 million for 172 supportive housing units over a period of 15 years, or average of $16,825 per unit per year. in conclusion all of the existing supportive housing developments among these projects are effective in valued units within the supportive housing portfolio. as outlined in the bla report, there may be a future opportunity for projects to apply for federal based voucher subsidies if it's issued by the san francisco housing authority. we're in agreement with the bla

recommendations in their report. i am happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor kim: thank you. and before we go to the budget legislative analyst, i did have a few questions on these items. so, i know that we lost the federal continuum of care grant, or it was not renewed by hud and the explanation was that because the cost of housing is so much more that they reduced the number of units they renewed. is the overall contract with hud the same amount? but with less units? or i just want -- >> so, structurally, the amount we've been getting from hud through the continuum of care process has increased every year, however, the fair market rent level did increase greatly which is a big support for the projects. and we're trying to add new projects to the continuum of

care funding every year because that's a big benefit to the city. because of that, the lowest scoring projects are not funded. so projects which do not follow the model are at a disadvantage in the scoring. >> supervisor kim: my follow-up question, one of the subcontractors did not meet their reporting requirement and i know you said you were working with this organization so they didn't lose their continuum of care grant with other developments. i believe this is the parkview terraces. >> and i'm sorry, i didn't hear? >> supervisor kim: it said in the bla report they did not meet their reporting requirement. >> so my understanding is that in their application they did not demonstrate some of the benchmarks that hud has outlined

and that is the income is increasing every year amongst the ten amounts. in senior housing this is more difficult to do and they didn't have all the requested information in their application. the department has had a meeting with them and gone over the areas where the application was not strong so that doesn't happen in the future, however, this development is very good job at providing the permanent supportive housing and we want it to continue. >> supervisor kim: seems like a hard bar for hud to expect that affordable senior housing would see growing income amongst its tenants. >> i think one of their goals, they want to make sure that all of the tenants get on benefits, but once that happens -- i don't have all the details about the scoring structure of the continuum of care, but that is my understanding of why they didn't score as high as they would. >> supervisor kim: my final question, this is related again to the bla report, was that the

cost, the average subsidy per unit, those started going down until this year and the next year, but it starts significantly going back up again in years following. i'm just curious why the average subsidy per year goes up and down the way it did on these tables? >> so one of the reasons why there was a big reduction is because we were -- the housing authority did issue vouchers for the units that serve the homeless, so many of the sponsors were able to apply and successful in getting the vouchers and they no longer need the loss funding. that resulted in significant savings in the loss budget. the amount of units that applied were sized so they have the maximum savings, but as we increase and bring on new units

and operating costs increase, the budget does increase. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. and we'll move on to ms. campbell. >> good morning, chair kim, members of the committee, severin campbell. i'm going to speak to the recommendations, if you have questions, i can respond. recommendations are on page 11 of the report, for all six pieces of legislation. the first recommendation is preach of the proposed resolutions, to clarify the terms of the agreement. we list a table with the terms of the agreement that need to be clarified as part of the resolution. and then the second recommendation is to amend file 180529, the state that the current agreement between arendt house will terminate on december 31, 2018, prior to the start of the new agreement, because the way it's now written there could

be overlap in that area. and then also to amend file 180530 for the parkview terraces agreement, so show its retroactive to april 1, 2018, because that's when they plan to fund the units. the third recommendation to request the director of housing, to put them to the next rfp. this could in fact change the amount of subsidies that are required by these projects if they in fact qualify for the project based from hud. and to require the contracts themselves to be amended if they do get the funding. and otherwise we recommend approval of the resolutions as amended. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, ms. campbell. we're going to open up for public comments on items 1-6. if members of the public would

like to speak, seeing none, public comment is closed. we have a set of amendments that the bla has recommended to the committee. can we take a motion? >> so moved. >> supervisor kim: we have a motion to amend, there were three amendments and so can we take a motion to approve? >> we have a motion to move items 1-6 forward with recommendation to the full board. mr. clerk can you call item number 7. >> item 7 is resolution authorizing the director of transportation to execute a five year agreement with an option to renew for five additional years to commence following board approval with conduent for citation and permit processing nor a total contract not to exceed 77,200, 000.

>> supervisor kim: i want to note that the others are available to answer questions. >> i am with finance an information technology and sfmta, we're here to seek your authorization to enter into the agreement with conduent for citation and permit processing. we released rfp for the services. the minimum qualification was two years of experience, processing of 700,000 citations. conduent was the only firm that submitted a proposal, although there were about 10 firms attending pre-bid conference, including subcontractors. conduent's proposal was in

response to the rfp. the citation processing fee will increase from 2.89 to $3.30. this increase per citation will include improvements to conduent management system and refreshment of the hand-helds with the current technology based on the smart phone and ois system. it also includes the purchases of the license plate recognition systems and various other enhancements. we arefully concur with the budget recommendations and i'm here to answer any questions. >> supervisor kim: my only question was why our current contractor did not bid on the renewal of this contract?

>> we're not exactly sure why they have not bid. and we weren't offered any explanation, so we're not sure. >> supervisor kim: ok. thank you very much. seeing no questions, ms. campbell, budget legislative analyst report? >> on page 15 of our report, we show the budget for this contract. this is a five-year contract with five-year option to extend. the first budget is $39.1 million. the second term would be under the extension $39.9 million, the total amount would be $77.1 million. there is provisions in the contract for what they call lock box services, which is a process for collected mailed payments. this is going to be the taken over by the treasury tax collector office and not performed under the contract. we do recommend a reduction in the contract amount of $2.2

million, so the contract would be reduced from $77.2 million to 74.9 or almost $75 million as we state in the recommendation. we recommend the contract to approve the lower amount and otherwise we recommend to approve the contract. >> supervisor kim: thank you. i wanted to note to sfmta, i appreciate that the credit card online service has improved and it's without a fee. that's important to provide to the residents. what is a lock box service? >> the lock box, you pay for citation with a check and they will process the payment. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. at this time, we're going to open for public comment on item 7. if members of the public would like to speak on the item, step up. seeing no public comment, i'll be closing public comment on item number 7. >> supervisor peskin: i would move to amend the resolution to

reduce the contract not to exceed amount by 2.208838 from 77.2 million to $74 million. >> supervisor kim: thank you, we have amendment, without objection. do we have a emotion. >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> supervisor kim: this item moves forward with positive recommendation to the full board. >> item 8 is resolution approving amendment number 4 to contract number cpt 713, procurement of 40-foot and 60 foot low floor diesel hybrid coaches, with new flyer of america, to change the coaches from parallel propulsion to series propulsion and amend the list of the additional equipment, for an amount not to exceed 428,654,904.

>> supervisor kim: thank you, i see the transit division has come up to present and answer questions on the item. >> hi, good morning. gary chang, senior program manager with sfmta. sfmta has been one of the national leaders supporting sustainable zero emission revenue fleet. indeed, we are the largesti operation of the trolley fleet. thank you to the board support, sfmta has replaced over 90% of our older diesel fleet with cleaner and more efficient electric hybrid vehicles. for the last production of this hybrid order, sfmta incorporates the electric vehicle, the hybrid vehicles with a higher battery capacity that allows for the vehicle to travel significant distance on battery power alone. what that means is, that

distance will be traveled strictly on battery and with the engines shut off. with the increased battery capacity that allows stm to run a test program. it will turn off and turn on the engines automatically. the item in front of you seeking for your approval is to hybrid contract number 4, that includes all the necessary equipment to be added onto the vehicle to enable this green zone program. there are also other changes we have incorporated during the production of the vehicles. let me list a few examples. the air-conditioning unit that we are adding onto the unit, replacing the legacy radio with the harris radio system, adding the g.p.s. to improve the performance. and the lift view ramp, which is

a well received item within the ada community. with all that, i'm here to answer questions. >> supervisor kim: well, first of all, i want to say it has been great to see the new buses and the fleet online as part of the muni fleet. and the low floor buses do make a tremendous difference for many of the riders. a quick question, there would be certain areas of the city where we would geo fence to ensure that only the batteries were operating in those areas, how would we determine the green zones? >> actually, this is something within the talks of sfmta and we have not made the final determination yet, but obviously it will be an area we would like to benefit the public. so as now, it's to be determined, but we'll be happy to come back and keep you informed once the location or how we strategize to come up with a location of the green

zone. >> supervisor kim: i assume some of it might be the congestion or busyness of the areas. >> that's one of the criteria that we are looking into, but however, it's still, we have to also worry about and concern about the range, obviously, and since the city itself, you know, we cover a very wide range of areas, so we have to make the selection carefully. so as of now, it's still in the development stage, but certainly we can come back and provide more information at a later time. >> supervisor kim: great. thank you so much. so at this time, we will move to ms. campbell, director of t budget. >> the original contract is for 124 buses, all of the buses have been ordered, 300 and 16 delivered. this amendment covers the standard buses, the 40-foot buses. 68 of the buses would be changed from parallel propulsion to

series propulsion which has been described in terms of benefits. we have a table 3 on page 20 that talks about how the cost differential of the parallel propulsion and series propuls n propulsion. the contracting fees are $14.9 million and we recommend approval. >> supervisor kim: thank you. i want to note that we have someone here to answer questions. we're going to open for public comment. if you would like to speak on the item, step up. public comment is closed. can we take a motion on this item? we have a motion to move this forward with recommendations and we can do that without objection. mr. clerk, item 9 and 10. >> item 9 is resolution approving amendment number 6 to contract cs 155 opinion 3 for

the design of the central subway project. to increase the contract amount from 1,269,472 to redesign the trackway alignment and analyzed impacts to ventilation systems. to provide design and support for communication systems with no change to the term to expire april 27, 2020 for a total contract amount not to exceed 34,930,020. item 10 is resume lieutenant-governor approving amendment number 1 and 4 to contract cs-155-2 for the final design and construction of the central subway project with the design group to increase the contract amount by 1, 010,600 for amendment number 1 to lower the chinatown station and $6.3 million dollar for amendment number 4, for additional work

necessary to provide engineering services through completion of central subway project stations, with no change to the length of the term, for total amended contract amount not to exceed $47 million. >> supervisor kim: we have the acting director of the subway project, before i let you speak, i want to begin the presentation with supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madame clare, let me start by saying better late than never. as the author of proposition a, from the board of supervisors, to the sfmta and its commission, i very, very specifically did not give up the board's powers pursuant to charter section 9.118, which is why all of the previous items on this calendar have been coming to this committee and the board. and i did that so that the board

would maintain oversight pursuant to that charter section. and obviously, we're going to vote for these things today, we have to, but i was rather taken aback by the statement in the budget and legislative analyst report and i have to get this off my chest, that the reason these were not submitted to the board of supervisors prior to june 2014 was due to central subway staff's misunderstanding of the sfmta charter authority. let's be very, very clear, section 9118 applies to the sfmta, any project over a certain period of duration or certain dollar amount comes to this board of supervisors for approval. that's the way the law has been for decades. it has not changed and i never want to see this happen again. >> thank you very much. good morning, chair kim, vice chair peskin, board president

mayor-elect breed. i'm acting program director for central subway. i want to apologize on behalf of the program and all the various staff members that are working on these amendments. i do understand your concerns and what you've raised and one of the things that we endeavor to do is not to come back to you, but i do want to make, as i present this, we have one other element, supervisor peskin, we need to clarify that may need to come in front of the board. because one of the things we did as part of the review, when doing the amendment 4 was review all of the professional service contracts and determine if any of the other amendments are not in compliance. so beyond these two, we have a third that we're in the process of verifying and putting a package to come back, not only to the sfmta board, but this board. and then also going forward, what we plan to do, all the

amendments, we have a checklist we need to check off. we're adding this element as verification process to include the charter section. in doing so, our preparer and reviewer can actually then determine whether we've done this check so we do not repeat this. parallel to that, director of transportation mr. ruskin has implemented something parallel and we're in the process of reviewing all contracts beyond central subway to see if clients compliance issues. i'm hoping this will be the last time we do for a retroactive commitment. again, i apologize for the error. it's on me because i'm the director. but just to quickly summarize

the three amendments that you have in front of you, amendment 6 for the cs 155-3, this is actually to redesign the track profile, when we lower the tunnel profile to gain further separation between the bottom of the existing muni tunnels and the top of the central subway tunnel. and in doing so, we gain greater safety as we board the tunnel under market street and 4th street. and this work has been done. in addition, we have other work beyond central subway related to the main metro for upgrades of the legacy communication system, and that's part of the amendment 6 that you have in front of you. in addition, amendment 1, value of $1 million, this is actually related to the central subway

chinatown station. this was put forth to lower the station by 25 feet, so we can gain better floor condition on lower part of the station. in doing so, we can construct the chinatown station safely and more advantageously. since the mining operation has been completed, we have experienced little or no sediment to the adjacent building which is basically one of the elements of this lowering work. the last amendment is amendment 4 which is currently for approval, not retroactive, but just for approval. this relates to support elements for design and construction as the project experience delay, we need to continue to provide engineering and construction support services. so that's basically the additional extension of years fort central subway project. in addition to that, one of the things we committed to the

chinatown station, because of the mining technology that was used, we want to ensure that we have specialty engineers on site doing the mining of the chinatown station. so in essence we provided better coordinati coordination, better direction to the contractor so we have no safety or any other issues during the construction. but part of the element was that because the construction of these -- the station was slower, we had to actually do construction mitigation, which was to increase the shift. we had one shift ten hours. we doubled that to two shift, ten hours and in doing so, we had to increase the engineering support effort. that's part of the reason we're here. and that's the third element. with that, i'm open to taking questions. >> supervisor kim: seeing no questions, at this time we will move onto ms. campbell. >> so for file 18-063 this is

retroactive approval of amendment number 6 to the contract with hntb-b & c joint venture. the original contract was approved by the board for $32.3 million. there have been seven amendments to this contract. six of the amendments came below the charter threshold of $500,000 for board approval, but amendment 6 was for $1.3 million. because this a is retroactive approval, we consider this to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. and then file 18-046, this is a retroactive approval of the amendment number 1 and approval of amendment number 4 to the contract with central subway design group. the original contract was approved in 2010 for $40 million. there have been three prior